Principal Engineer Software, Dev Infrastructure (Chronosphere)

Our Mission

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Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

The Team

Chronosphere a Palo Alto Networks company is the observability platform built for control in the modern containerized world. Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter by reducing complexity optimizing costs and remediating issues faster. Chronosphere reduces data volumes and associated costs by 84% on average while saving developers thousands of hours. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms Chronosphere is trusted by the worlds most innovative brands including DoorDash Affirm and Zillow.

Job Summary

Were looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to build developer tooling that enables developer velocity and reliability for the entire engineering organization. Our team owns the full end-to-end development lifecycle from local development tools CI/CD dynamic testing environments deployments and releases. Youll be working with the latest cloud-native technologies as you build an infrastructure platform that enables the engineering organization to deliver observability for some of the largest technology companies.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Build: Design and maintain high-scale developer tooling and backend services that improve productivity and reliability across a distributed cloud environment. We operate in a 100% modern cloud-native ecosystem and you will work exclusively with ephemeral infrastructure and containerized microservices.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Treat infrastructure as a first-class citizen. You will define deploy and manage entire environments using declarative IaC (Terraform) ensuring our platform is reproducible and version-controlled.

• Drive Systemic Quality: Identify and eliminate systemic bottlenecks in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) through architectural changes or advanced tooling.

• Scale & Reliability: Ensure our infrastructure remains resilient under massive traffic loads while optimizing for performance cost-efficiency and near-real-time telemetry processing.

• Strategic Leadership & Mentorship: Define platform standards and reference architectures that span a 13 year horizon balancing feature velocity with long-term technical debt. Act as the glue across teams consulting on infrastructure best practices and up-leveling the organization through mentorship.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant experience with the following:

• Foundational Technical Proficiency: Strong experience in at least one backend language (e.g. Go Java Python or Rust). We value fluency and the ability to write modular testable code over knowing a specific syntax.

• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g. Go Java Python or Rust). We prioritize the ability to write modular testable code over knowledge of a specific language syntax.

• Deep Systems Expertise: You go beyond using the cloud; you understand how it works. This includes:

• Cloud-Native: A solid understanding of cloud-native concepts and experience working with cloud providers like AWS or GCP. You should be comfortable navigating Kubernetes and container-level logic.

• Operating Systems & Compute: Deep knowledge of Linux internals process management and resource isolation.

• Networking & Security: Understanding of the OSI model service meshes load balancing and zero-trust security architectures.

• Distributed Systems: Experience building and debugging systems that deal with CAP theorem trade-offs eventual consistency and distributed tracing.

• Reliable Execution: A track record of completing assigned tasks/tickets reliably and estimating work effectively within a sprint. You take ownership of features from local development through to basic testing and delivery.

• Analytical Debugging & Quality: The ability to debug your own code efficiently using logs and tests while proactively identifying edge cases (like nulls or limits) during the design phase.

• Collaborative Spirit: Strong communication skills to keep teammates informed raise blockers early and contribute meaningfully to code reviews and design discussions.

• Continuous Learning: A proactive approach to learning new tools processes and libraries. You are open to feedback and use incidents or code reviews as opportunities to up-level your skills.

• AI-Native Development: You embrace the future of engineering. Experience or interest in using AI coding assistants (like Cursor or Claude) to improve productivity and automate boilerplate tasks.

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Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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